Gabriel Silva (@GabrielfSilva), from the popular portuguese blog Blasfémias, set some commandments for the portuguese webjournos, after reading on Twitter a comment about how some still do not link outside their news website. Me and Raul Pereira (@raul_pereira) added one more, to make precisely 10. Have fun and add a few more you feel appropriate:

1. Thou shalt not link;

2. You’ll refer only to blogs of people known in the offline world;

3. In case of success in any endeavour of yours, you shall say “it is the first time that…”;

4. When you report a more than three day old news thou shall begin with “yesterday”;

5. All the news from abroad shall not have specified sources;

6. If you use multimedia, you shall try , by all means possible, that they can’t be embedded, or used directly;

7. At the peak of you audience flow, you shall place a pop-up ad stopping them from visualizing your work;

8. So that your readers can contact you, leave your webmaster’s email followed by a fax number;

9. In a more appealing or long story, publish only the 1st paragraph and add: “Keep reading in the print edition”;

10. Thou shalt use copy/paste with discretion, and byline as yours; ( Suggestion by Raul and me)

These commandments apply not only here in Portugal, but throughout the world.